Do you buy tea mostly from...?

Yesterday, TeaChatters were asked, "when selecting or evaluating a vendor, which is most important?" The top answer was...VALUE. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Welcome to TeaMonday on TeaDay. We will all need lots of brew to get us through the day. So filler up an come share what is in your cup today, all day. Check out what other TeaChatters are sipping as well...that is certainly half the fun! Of course, if you must, you can reflect back on your TeaDay as well.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic is still on the subject of vendors. Do you buy from vendors in your country...or do you buy from country of origin...or both. This is a pretty recent issue on the tea front. What is your take on this phenomenon.

99.9% I buy from a domestic vendor. I recently ordered some stuff to try from its country of origin but am still awaiting it to get here. I guess when it finally arrives, I'll see if the extra trouble and time is worth it. It's been 11 days now but who's counting?

Nothing in a cup yet today. I'm off work but wide awake. I better try and catch some Zzzz's...

I can almost bet it'll be something black and strong when I get back up, though.

Most of my Japanese tea is bought from vendors in Japan, so I had to select International Vendors. And don't forget, even Adagio is international to me!

Admittedly I do sometimes buy tea locally, but never in sufficient quantities (or often enough) to count against the "furrin stuff." I'd love to support local businesses more; unfortunately, most of them just don't sell what I most want.

In my cup - nothing - I'm about to go to bed!

P.S. I was doing some work on the Tea Mind blog late tonight when suddenly it disappeared. Hopefully this is due to site maintenance or similar, and I didn't just kill my own blog thanks to over-enthusiastic tagging or the pressing of a "wrong key".

(What's alarming is that I can see other people's blogs on Wordpress just fine. Uh-oh.)

Last edited by chamekke on May 19th, '08, 04:38, edited 1 time in total.

I mostly buy from local vendors. I've only bought tea online once and that was a disaster. I like the tea store experience I guess. But when I'm through the things I can get from Swedish vendors, I will probably start looking abroad

Hopefully Alexandrina Victoria herself would approve the near legendary Dan Cong on her day: the most subtle, most sophisticated, and most difficult to brew of all oolongs. All about aroma, a well made Dan Cong mimics the aroma of a particular flower. Each lot is picked from only one bush, and the bushes can be hundreds of years old. Aficionados may even treasure the tea from a favorite, individual bush.
Photographed is Yu Lan Xiang Magnolia Fragrance 2007 from Imen’s Tea Habitat in Palos Verdes. For more about Dan Cong, see Bears’ notes in Brandon’s brainchild, Wikicha:
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Sorry to go off topic again, but I still can't see the blog (http://www.teamind.wordpress.com) - in fact I'm not even seeing the Wordpress dashboard for it. However, I can successfully get to the dashboards for 2 other blogs I have on Wordpress.

When I try to go to Tea Mind (either the URL itself or the dashboard address), the webpage takes forever to "load" and then finally gives up. I'm wondering if the database has been corrupted.

If Beidao or anyone else really can see the blog now (with all 5 entries to date), can you please copy-and-paste the whole thing into a PM and send it to me? I would be really grateful. Thank you!

chamekke wrote:If Beidao or anyone else really can see the blog now (with all 5 entries to date), can you please copy-and-paste the whole thing into a PM and send it to me? I would be really grateful. Thank you!

Done, though I hope it's not the 4th one you've gotten. Just telling you here so you don't get 20 more!

Salsero, Vicortia gets a birthday AND her own day?! I voted domestic vendors because I only buy inside the US...for now.
No tea yet today. I'm confused, should I have black tea or oolong for Victoria Day?